"an exciting collaborative effort... there is no available study with this scope and intellectual boldness... this volume will be a sure hit with a broad set of reading publics, appropriate for specialists in the field and a very attractive introduction for undergraduate students in history, human rights, international relations, and many other fields." -- Mark von Hagen, Professor of History, Columbia University well defined, authoritative, disciplined and topically innovative& a pioneering publication in an academic field which is just opening up. -- Raymond Pearson, Professor of Modern European History, School of History and International Affairs, University of UlsterThis new volume, by a team of international scholars, explores aspects of population displacement and statehood at a crucial stage in modern European history, when the entire continent took on the aspect of a laboratory atop a mass graveyard (Tomas Masaryk).This topic of state formation has become newly urgent today, following the collapse of the USSR and the Soviet bloc, and the violent conflicts in the Balkans and Caucasus. Many of these current dilemmas and tragedies have their origins in the aftermath of World War I, when newly emerging nation states in this region first sought to define themselves in terms of population and citizenship.The sudden reconfiguration of power and territory in Eastern Europe after 1918 was characterized by extreme flux, in the form of massive population movements, shifting territorial borders and cultural boundaries, and new political and social formations taking shape. Acknowledging the chaotic and destructive nature of involuntary migration and the intensity of human suffering andtrauma involved, the current volume emphasizes the active and constructive participation of refugees and returnees in negotiating their status and role in the newly formed independent states of Eastern Europe.Based on original research in recently opened East European and Russian archives, this volume examines domestic and international changes that affected the entire region between the end of the war in 1918 and the stabilization of post-imperial European frontiers and regimes by 1924. It includes detailed case studies on Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Ukraine, Belorussia, the Urals region of Soviet Russia and Armenia.War, Population and Statehood in Eastern Europe and Russia, 1918" 1924 highlights why the topics of population displacement, state building and social identity should be matters of vital concern, not only to contemporary political scientists, demographers, policymakers, journalists and others, but also to historians.
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